Your Antivirus is Useless.
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,064 words · ~5 min read
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i forgot to write an intro sorry james
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you're here really and you're and you're standing here i'm sorry
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unbelievable the shooter that notoriously betrayed steam metro exodus
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is launching this friday on the epic game store but along with any emotional
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baggage it will also be bringing support for NVIDIA's rtx features the game will
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only be the second to feature ray tracing after battlefield 5 and only the
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third to feature deep learning super sampling after battlefield and final
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fantasy xv some tech outlets have been testing out the features on pre-release
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versions of the game including tech jesus himself steve from gamer's nexus
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and it looks like ray tracing will have just as small an effect on graphics as
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it did in battlefield speaking of battlefield v that game has just
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received dlss support now and a preview
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version of the unreal engine has also been updated with ray tracing so it
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looks like rtx may be turning into more of a real thing that we might actually
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all get to experience someday unless of just something in meme land wow
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really eventually i guess smart watches are dead you say it was
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all just a gimmick you say well you should stop saying these things and let
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me do it i've got a script to help me out the npd group and analytics firm has
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said that smart watch sales went up more than 60 percent in the us last year
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totaling nearly five billion dollars according to the report sixteen percent
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of the u.s population owns a smart watch with that number going up to a quarter
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for people between the ages of 18 and 34. wow however 88 percent of smart
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watch sales were accounted for by apple samsung and fitbit so while you might
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not want to say that smart watches are dead you can say that about where os
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watches where you have my permission
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also still don't want a smart watch you can now get sony smartwatch strap called
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the wienerwist
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actually nevermind and researchers have unfortunately identified a method for
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running malware on Intel based systems that completely bypasses antivirus
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software the attack vector was identified partially by one of the researchers behind the discovery of the
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spectre vulnerability daniel gruss at graz university of technology and it
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involves using the software guard extension feature introduced with
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skylake processors sgx enables apps to use virtual enclaves where data can be
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protected by requiring to be encrypted and decrypted in order to be stored in
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red respectively by hiding malicious code inside an sgx enclave it could hide
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from anti-virus software Intel has responded to the research thanking those
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involved and saying the best defense is only to run code from trusted sources so
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then the question becomes who do you trust
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now that i'm all hopped up on caffeine the wall street journal reports that
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apple is in talks with news publishers to develop a subscription tier for the
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apple news app subscribers would pay around 10 bucks a month to access an
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unlimited amount of content from news sites that charge for access like those
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pesky wall street journal the only catch is apple wants a 50 cut
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of the revenue oh that's like half that's that's like two quarters oh
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geez louise and rocket league is set to release an update next week that will
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not only allow players from playstation 4 xbox one nintendo switch and pc to
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play against each other but also to party up and enter online matchmaking
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together hey yeah this is what the world needs my friends love community harmony
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and the ability to open news no matter what potato they play on hey have you
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heard of vf vfemale have you no worries me either
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it's not really a thing anymore that's why it was an email provider that was
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completely destroyed by an unknown hacker who somehow got access to the
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company's service and methodically reformatted every hard drive they could
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find it's a horrible story and also a great reminder to keep offline backups
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of your data or just keep offline altogether and also to make sure you
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change your passwords when you fire someone yeah
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ncix oh researchers in russia singapore
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hong kong and mit in the usa have demonstrated a new method that could
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open up all kinds of new materials for use in creating processors which is
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important given that we're coming up against the limits of what silicon
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can do the researchers were even able to conduct tests using nanometer sized
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needles made of diamond god why is this
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important it's not but diamond needle cpus that sounds really good i'll
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and it's time to say goodbye to one of the titans of space exploration
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the opportunity mars rover nasa declared
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the rover dead today eight months after its last contact following a massive
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dust storm on the red planet it's believed that dust covered the rover's
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solar panels giving it no opportunity to
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charge its batteries i'm sorry too soon yeah
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and it's too soon to end this episode but we have to do it anyway because
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riley hasn't eaten lunch yet it's the most important meal of the day they say
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some who says that so subscribe now for more text news all the text news
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i'll only do it one take that's it see you later